The manga Blue by Kiriko Nananan is being reprinted in English by Fanfare / Ponent Mon, with no further details on release timing or format beyond its inclusion in a reprint slate.
Fanfare / Ponent Mon announced in May 2026 that it will reprint Kiriko Nananan's manga Blue as part of a slate of reissues from three acclaimed manga creators. The announcement groups Blue with Jiro Taniguchi's The Summit of the Gods and Hideo Azuma's Disappearance Diary. The Summit of the Gods reprint is scheduled for July 2026 to coincide with an Everest ascent anniversary, while the other reprints, including Blue, are described as arriving later in the year.
No specific release date, format, or pricing has been shared for Blue beyond its inclusion in the reprint lineup. The announcement does not indicate whether the reprint will be a single volume or a collected edition, nor does it mention any new material or changes from the original English release. The reprint program is the only recent coverage of Blue in Yomimono stories, and no other news about the manga-such as adaptations, sales, or creator activity-has been reported.
The reprint positions Blue as part of a broader effort to bring out-of-print English editions of notable manga back into circulation. Beyond this announcement, the manga has no active serialization, adaptation, or other developments covered in Yomimono stories.
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ULTRANOVA Entertainment exhibited Blue Bite at Tokyo Game Show 2026, a 3D romance action adventure set for winter 2026. The game takes place in a world of only women, where six heroines are threatened by a disease called Blue Bite. The protagonist cures them through massage, and choices lead to six endings. The booth introduced the heroines with panels, and no playable demo was offered.
Netflix released a teaser trailer on Thursday for The Blue Road, a live-action series based on the 2002 Korean-Japanese comic Purungil - Ao no Michi. The series premieres on Netflix on November 20 at 1:00 a.m. PST. Seok-gu Son plays a Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency detective and Eita Nagayama plays a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department detective investigating linked murders in South Korea and Japan. Joon-hee Han, who helmed D.P. and Coin Locker Girl, directs.
The PHP security team disclosed two critical vulnerabilities on October 20 and set a fix release for 23:00 JST on October 21, 2026. Both vulnerabilities are rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0. In response, Uma Musume Pretty Derby, Granblue Fantasy, Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond, Princess Connect! Re:Dive, Heaven Burns Red, Dolphin Wave, CHUNITHM-NET, Pokemon Sleep and World Quest announced emergency maintenance or service changes. Official websites for Bushiroad, Bandai Channel, Niconico, pixiv, BOOTH, Sony Store, Sega, Square Enix, Takara Tomy, Animate, Melonbooks, BASE and BOOK☆WALKER also entered maintenance. Granblue Fantasy scheduled its maintenance from 22:00 October 21 to 07:00 October 22. Uma Musume Pretty Derby moved its start time to around 22:00. By 12:00 on October 22, pixiv, BOOTH, Uma Musume Pretty Derby, Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond, Princess Connect! Re:Dive, Pokemon Champions and Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space had completed maintenance. Sony Store still had no restoration time as of October 22.
Newly drawn Blue Lock goods go on early sale at the AMNIBUS booth at Animate Girls Festival 2026, held November 7 and 8 in Ikebukuro. The Dreaming Throne lineup puts protagonist Isagi Yoichi and nine others in black and gray suits, with trading can badges, vertical illustration cards, cheki prints and bromides, plus a 10-type BIG Acrylic Stand. An A4 clear file using the group illustration is limited to the venue.
Bandai Namco Entertainment is holding the story event "Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Land Where the Colony Fell..." in SD Gundam G Generation Eternal, set in Australia at the end of the One Year War. The pickup gasha adds UR Reborns Gundam (EX), UR Ribbons Almark, UR Gundam Dynames (EX) and UR Lockon Stratos, plus supporter Kati Mannequin & Ural. Both run to October 31.
Bluesky announced an expansion of its AI tool Attie on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Users can now build websites and minigames that previously required software developers, and the results run on AT Protocol. CEO Toni Schneider described it as social vibe coding for specific groups. COO Rose Wang said users may bring their own AI models.
BANDAI SPIRITS releases "HI-METAL R Layzner" on October 17 as a general retail product priced at 29,700 yen including tax. The figure from "Blue Comet SPT Layzner" uses a completely new sculpt with proportions based on Kunio Okawara's design drawings. Armor on each part opens to expose internal parts and reproduce the heat dissipation state after V-MAX activation, while an LED in the neck ball joint drives a compound-eye light-emitting gimmick.
Shueisha is listing two new novel adaptations for December 4. Nanao writes The Promised Neverland: A 10th Year Gift, a 10th anniversary novel following Emma and the other children after the manga's final chapter, with stories about Cislo and the Lambda group and about Phil and the younger children. The same author writes Blue Box Epilogue, set before and after that manga's ending, including Taiki and Chinatsu's drive and Hina in university rhythmic gymnastics.
Glacier Bay Books announced five new manga licenses on Sunday: Serata Naminami's Oedo-chan of Moguraya, Aoi Mukoubi's A Vase of Life, Akino Kogomi's Faraway Blue, Aoi Ikebe's All I Can Do, and Ikuko Hatoyama's The Dovecote Express. Pre-orders for those titles, plus two other books, open next week on Kickstarter. The publisher is also continuing its reprint releases of Star Fruit Books titles.
Kana Ozawa announced on X that a new manga, Ao Sansan (Blue Brilliance), will begin serialization in December. Ozawa said the manga is a new story developed over the past few years, with publication medium and other details to come later. Ozawa's earlier works include Blue Thermal and its prequel First Flight, plus Blue Moment, which ran on Comic Bridge Online.
Banpresto will release two Blue Lock prize figures in its sweets flavor theme: Reo Mikage in a white suit from Wednesday, October 14, 2026, and Seishiro Nagi in a matching white suit from Tuesday, October 20. Both are crane game prizes, about 16 cm and 14 cm tall respectively. They follow Yoichi Isagi and Rin Itoshi, who appeared in September.
Arc System Works Europe says BlazBlue: CentralFiction is coming to the PlayStation 5. The PS5 version adds rollback netcode, cross-play with the PC release, four new text languages (French, Italian, German, Spanish), and new Training Mode features. Arc System Works America says the release is scheduled after the "TRINITY -PHASE 3-" update, which brings Trinity Glassfille to the PS4 and PC versions.
Dengeki Hobby Web's roundup of Amazon.co.jp's Kindle manga sales ranking for October 9, 2026 lists the top 20 comic volumes. The newest entries of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Kyouran Reijou Nia Liston and Grand Blue rank among the week's top sellers, alongside volumes of Aho Girl spin-off Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun and Laid-Back Camp. The article also notes pre-orders for Bookworm Part 4 Volume 13 and Shangri-La Frontier Volume 28.
The October 4-10 North American release slate includes the Devil Survivor 2: The Animation Blu-ray from Sentai Filmworks and the first volume of The Apothecary Diaries: Xiaolan's Story from Square Enix Manga, plus Blue Lock Full Color Selection: Yoichi Isagi from Kodansha USA and My Journey to Her, also from Kodansha USA. Print manga from Viz Media, Seven Seas, Kodansha USA, Vertical, Dark Horse, Tokyopop, Titan, and Nakama Press round out the week.
Good Smile Company has opened preorders for a Nendoroid of Miyako Tsukiyuki, the RABBIT Platoon leader from Blue Archive's SRT Special Academy. The painted plastic figure stands about 100mm tall and includes Composed, Serious, and Smiling face parts, plus a RABBIT-31 type submachine gun and a smartphone. Sculpting is by Shichibei of Matsuda Model, with Nendoron production cooperation. Amazon.co.jp lists it at 7,640 yen, scheduled for release on April 30, 2027.
In an interview, manga author Takako Shimura discussed the anime adaptation of Scenes From Awajima, also known as A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMA. Shimura said she made no specific requests for the adaptation and that the production team worked carefully. She said the school drew partly on the Takarazuka Revue as a reference, and that the omnibus structure serves stories about people who are not geniuses.
Global porcelain brand YOYOYO will sell Sonic the Hedgehog Arita ware "Infinite Blue," limited to 50 pieces worldwide at 1 million yen each, tax included. Five pieces go on sale first come, first served at the Sonic exhibition at Ikebukuro PARCO starting October 9. Online lottery applications open the same day, with results emailed from late October.
Anique will run a booth at the 2026 Shin Kong Mitsukoshi A11 Japan Exhibition at Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Taipei Xinyi Place A11 6F in Taiwan from October 15 to November 3, 2026. The booth carries eight IPs and sells goods on site, including a Blue Lock KINOKOS self-standing plush figure line themed on a waitress cafe and omurice. Blue Lock products sell until October 23.
Blue Lock characters Yoichi Isagi, Hyoma Chigiri, Seishiro Nagi, Reo Mikage, Rin Itoshi and Sae Itoshi appear in a new withCAT illustration line drawn in a Heisei-retro style. The lineup includes acrylic stands, hard card cases, badge collections, clear pouches, jewel mirrors and sticker sets. Preorders are open at Animate stores and mail order and Movic mail order, with release set for around mid-December 2026.
The October 2026 issue of Megami Magazine features Aika Kobayashi in its "Megami's Voice" interview column. She discusses "BLUE MAGIC," her first single after transferring to the Lantis label. Kobayashi says she wanted the song to bring out a "dancing" side of herself and asked for a danceable number. She describes the lyrics incorporating "Atlantis," the origin of Lantis's company name.
Orange Inc.'s emaqi e-bookstore is adding 11 new titles this month, eight of them through the emaqi Premium monthly subscription. The picks include Yuka Tatami's Streaming Under My Control, koma's The Soldier Groom and the Daikon Bride, Yuji Shiozaki's Shin Ikki Tousen, Kaduho's Kill Me Baby, Ryokuji Yoshizawa's And So, We Mostly Destroyed, and Kawakami Daishiro's Song of the Thirty-Year-Olds' Blues. The service also added a chat assistant meant to help readers find titles by mood and preference.
Dead Account: Two Blue Flames is a team-based roguelite RPG handled by Smilegate Megaport and developed by IAN Games, based on Shizu Watanabe's manga. Players assemble a team of five characters, combine their powers to fight Bakeaka, and walk around the town of Kusatsu. Development director Kim Byung-gi says early stages run about 2-3 minutes, with kiting action central to combat.
Tokyo Game Show 2026 ran September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture. The 1,138 exhibitors from 53 countries and regions were the most ever, and the four days drew more than 250,000 visitors. The 21st was canceled because of an approaching typhoon. A photo report collects nine cosplayers dressed as characters from Chinese games, including Blue Archive, Wuthering Waves, Goddess of Victory: Nikke, and Genshin Impact.
BANDAI SPIRITS will release HI-METAL R Layzner on October 17, 2026 as a general retail product priced at 29,700 yen. The Layzner figure from Blue Comet SPT Layzner uses a new sculpt with proportions based on Kunio Okawara's design drawings. Opening armor on each part exposes internal parts to reproduce the heat dissipation state after V-MAX activation, and an LED mounted in the neck ball joint provides the compound-eye light-emitting gimmick.
Nexon Games IO Division's RX Studio brought Faledria, its new title announced earlier as Project RX, to Tokyo Game Show 2026 with a playable build. General producer Kim Yong-ha, who also holds that role on Blue Archive, and composer Mitsukiyo, representing STUDIO ALOH, discussed the game's theme of otherworld home stay and its cycle of battles and character interaction from Tasogare Hall.
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God Brave Studio's FigRiq Blue Archive Series vol.1 is now available for pre-order on Amazon.co.jp at 12,094 yen including tax, with a release date of February 28, 2027. One BOX holds all six types at roughly 75mm tall: Shiroko, Hoshino, Nonomi, Serika, Ayane, and Helmet Gang Member. The figures are non-scale painted plastic with display bases, sculpted by KOORA.
Bloomo Securities will offer its in-house asset management platform to IFA operators, with Value Advisers as the first adopter from October 1, 2026. The platform puts overseas ETFs, individual U.S. stocks, and discretionary investment management in one account, using BlackRock-advised discretionary management as the core and custom U.S. stock and ETF portfolios as satellites.
Netflix announced on Friday that The Blue Road, a live-action adaptation of the 2002 Korean-Japanese comic Purungil - Ao no Michi, premieres on November 20. Joon-hee Han directs. Seok-gu Son plays a Seoul detective and Eita Nagayama plays a Tokyo detective investigating linked cross-border murders. Netflix also released the first poster and trailer, which show crime scenes, blood-written messages and a tiger drawing.
Mega Hobby EXPO 2026 ran September 26 at AKIBA SQUARE in Akihabara UDX, hosted by MegaHouse with 13 companies taking part under the theme F-DASH. MegaHouse showed ten items, including a Chō Kaguya-hime! Lookup Tsukimi Yachiyo for late May 2027, a Nami Portrait.Of.Pirates for 2027, and a 08th MS Team B-Style Aina Sahalin. Krenel showed Uma Musume and Madoka Magica pieces. Many are release date TBD.
Bandai Namco Filmworks will release the stage adaptation of the Blue Lock spin-off on Blu-ray on September 25, 2026. The deluxe edition runs 16,280 yen and the standard edition 10,780 yen. The deluxe set records the November 2025 Tokyo run of "Stage Play 'Blue Lock -EPISODE Nagi-'" and the June 2026 run of "Stage Play 'Blue Lock -Re EPISODE Nagi-'" in Tokyo and Kyoto.
Amazing Games opened the Steam store page for Age of Transport - Blue Marble on September 22, with early access planned for 2027. The PC simulation builds a worldwide logistics network across a map of roughly 35 million square kilometers at about 1/4 scale, covering more than 70,000 real cities and 12 eras from the 1830s to the present. Money does not exist; costs are measured as workload and time.
Akaza Samamiya said on X that the Mr. Mallow Blue: After The Rain side story will end with its next chapter. The side story began in the March issue of Kadokawa's Asuka magazine, which shipped in January. The main Mr. Mallow Blue manga ran in Asuka from November 2019 and closed with a sixth and final compiled volume on December 24.
Blue Box Season 2 begins airing on TBS's 28-station nationwide network on Sunday, October 4, 2026, at 4:30 PM, opening with Episode 26, titled Déjà Vu. The episode follows Taiki Inomata as he goes on a long-awaited date with Chinatsu Kano. They shop together and enjoy the outing until Kazuma Matsuoka, a senior in the boys' basketball club, appears and the mood shifts. Matsuoka, voiced by Yuki Kaji, pushes the pair around, and after those turns the two end up at a certain place. At twilight, Taiki resolves to tell Chinatsu how he feels. Streaming begins after broadcast on October 4 at 5:00 PM on services including Netflix, d Anime Store, and U-NEXT. Electric Circus handles animation production under director Daisuke Sakou, and Shoya Chiba and Reina Ueda voice the two leads.
NEXON Games IO Division's RX Studio showed Faledoria, its new bishoujo title, at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which ran from September 17. The build let visitors walk a cycle from the Tasogare-kan hall into battle and back for character interaction. Kim Yong-ha, general producer, and Mitsukiyo, who handles music production and heads STUDIO ALOH, answered questions about how the project took shape. Kim said the idea came around 2022 and was made concrete in 2023, with full development starting at the beginning of 2024, roughly two years of production. Faledoria is planned for PC, mobile, and console. Kim also produces Blue Archive, and Mitsukiyo has written music for it since around 2019. Kim said he found Mitsukiyo on the music service SoundCloud before they met in person.
Sloclap began Season 5 of its online soccer game REMATCH on September 24, and with it a collaboration with the soccer manga and anime Blue Lock that runs until October 23. The centerpiece is Aura Striker, a new 3 vs. 3 mode inspired by Blue Lock's theme of surpassing limits, in which players activate an aura to temporarily boost movement speed and shot power. The goalkeeper is handled by an automatic hologram so players focus on attacking. A free event pass offers collaboration cosmetics including player cards, a themed VR arena, and a Blue Lock ball. A free welcome bundle with Blue Lock cosmetics goes to all players. Premium bundles for Yoichi Isagi, Meguru Bachira, Seishiro Nagi, and Rin Itoshi each include a character skin, a celebration, and a player card. REMATCH is available on PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, and on Xbox and PC Game Pass.
The official website for the Grand Blue Dreaming television anime announced on Tuesday that the series is getting a fourth season. The announcement came one day after the third season's 12th and final episode aired on Monday, September 21, 2026. A teaser visual accompanied the news. The third season debuted on July 6 on Tokyo MX and BS11 and is set in Palau, marking the first time the anime's setting has moved outside Japan. Shinji Takamatsu returned as director, and studios ZERO-G and Liber handled the animation. The returning voice cast includes Yuma Uchida as Iori Kitahara, Ryohei Kimura as Kohei Imamura, and Chika Anzai as Chisa Kotegawa. The Grand Blue Dreaming manga, written by Kenji Inoue and illustrated by Kimitake Yoshioka, began serialization in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine in April 2014 and is published digitally in English by Kodansha USA Publishing.
Blue Box Season 2 episode 26, titled Deja Vu, airs October 4, and advance cuts plus an interview with Yoshino Aoyama, who plays new character Yumeka Kido, have been published. Aoyama describes Yumeka as someone who holds negative feelings the story has not shown much before, and says she deliberately kept distance from co-star Reina Ueda, who plays Chinatsu, because of how the two characters relate.
Good Smile Company's G.S.Collection Mika (Swimsuit) figure is up for pre-order on Amazon.co.jp at 21,800 yen including tax, with a release date of November 30, 2027. The 1/7 scale painted product stands about 260mm and includes a dedicated base. Mika, one of Trinity General School's Tea Party, is shown in a white swimsuit with spread wings and long hair. Sculpting is credited to Pot (Digital Pot), coloring to Sota Tamebuchi, direction to Nendoron, and design and illustration to kokosando.
Alter showed its anime and game figure lineup at Mega Hobby EXPO 2026, held Saturday, September 26, 2026, at AKIBA_SQUARE in Akihabara, Tokyo. The anime side includes Nadia from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Kasugano Sora -Elegant China Style- from Yosuga no Sora, and Shalltear Bloodfallen so-bin Ver. from Overlord. The game side includes Saber 20th Anniversary Ver. from Fate/stay night, Emma Sakuwa Key Visual Ver. from Mahou Shoujo no Majo Saiban, and three Touhou Project figures: Alice Margatroid, Yukari Yakumo, and Aya Shameimaru. Dengeki Hobby Web also lists uncolored prototypes of Remilia Scarlet, Flandre Scarlet, and Yuuka Kazami from the non-scale chibi figure series Arcana Chibi Kore. The outlet split its coverage into two reports (anime and game editions) and said other exhibitors showed items that will be covered separately, with a roundup page collecting all of it.
Kodansha and Dentsu have signed a partnership that gives marketers across the Americas access to three of the publisher's anime and manga properties: Attack on Titan, Ghost in the Shell, and Blue Lock. Dentsu is the primary contact for brands that want to use the Kodansha-owned intellectual property in advertising campaigns, sponsorships, promotional work, and fan events across the region. Cartoon Brew reported the agreement on September 24, 2026. OtakuKart Anime followed on September 25, 2026, describing the three franchises as globally recognized and framing the deal as a route to advertising campaigns and fan-focused experiences in the Americas. The arrangement covers promotional use of Kodansha IP. It does not name specific partner brands, campaign dates, or the terms of the agreement. The three titles are the only Kodansha properties the reports name.
ProjectBLUE announced the final batch of performers for its VTuber music event Shinkai Fest 2026, subtitled Cho Shinkai, on September 23, 2026. AZKi, YuNi, Fuji Aoi, Moemi, and 12 other acts join the roster, which the organizer says is now complete. The event runs over two days, October 17 and 18, at Shibuya Stream Hall in Tokyo. More than 100 artists are set to perform across the two days. The festival gathers V-singers who have been active since the early days of the scene. Day 1 on October 17 puts Fuji Aoi, Hoshikuzu Plane, and Moemi on the Grand Stage, among other bookings. The full schedule and stage assignments followed the lineup reveal as the last piece of the programming.
Gameloft's Bluey's Happy Snap appeared at Tokyo Game Show 2026 with a playable demo and a special Bluey stage in the Family Game Park area. The adventure game, based on the Bluey TV anime, is scheduled for release on October 15, 2026 for PC, PS5, PS4, Switch 2, Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One, with Sega handling the packaged version for Japan and Asia.
The Blue Lock original manga version SPECIAL MV has been released on the Magazine Channel. It layers original manga illustrations over Ado's "Monstro," the theme song for the live-action film, and carries a freshly recorded voice performance by Fumiya Takahashi, who plays protagonist Yoichi Isagi. Giga and TeddyLoid composed and arranged the song, supercell's ryo wrote the lyrics, and Ado sang vocals. The live-action film passed 1.2 billion yen in box office revenue on September 6.
Automaton's 100th weekly roundup collects seven game stories. Satchely, the character artist of Doki Doki Literature Club!, announced Faraday Blues, a card adventure with 64 endings that are almost all bad endings. Also listed: the SophieChat:AI chat app set in Atelier Sophie 2, a remaster of the 2009 arcade mahjong game Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan, the Steam multiplayer game Chou Excite Ball, Otomate's otome title Shinsou no Doppelt, the AWS BuilderCards release on Amazon on September 25, and Da Vinci Ushiyama's free browser game Riyou Kiyaku.
Bandai is releasing a Blue Lock entry in its Q posket Miniature Collection gashapon series in the fourth week of September 2026. The lineup has four types: Yoichi Isagi, Rin Itoshi, Seishiro Nagi, and Reo Mikage. Each play costs 500 yen including tax, and the miniature boxes reproduce the Q posket packaging. The line adapts the Q posket figures found in crane game corners at amusement facilities.
Netmarble held a media presentation for its smartphone girls' romantic comedy RPG Pearl in Blue on September 17, 2026, at Tokyo Game Show 2026. Development producer Jung Hyun-jun greeted the audience in Japanese and said he loves Rumiko Takahashi and Negi Haruba. Comedian Yusuke Inoue and freelance writer Gemuboku joined the stage, where a playable demo was available.
NTT Urban Development announced on September 18 that the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Plot A Project building in Minami Ward is complete, and it will house the immersive art center Superblue Kyoto and the gallery QUESTION BP, with opening set for early 2027. The site is a seven-minute walk from JR Kyoto Station and has 1,382.05 square meters of floor area across two stories.
Serenity Forge announced Faraday Blues during Microsoft's XBOX Tokyo Game Show 2026 Broadcast on September 17. The game is scheduled for release in 2027 on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam and Xbox on PC). It mixes a sci-fi visual novel with a strategy card game. The story follows Lina, who wakes in an unfamiliar place and finds a table holding a card game whose cards depict the faces of her parents. Those parents do not recognize her at all, and their lives ended in tragedy, so Lina resets the board and starts the card game over. Each card is a person rather than a creature that fights or deals damage. The 52-card deck holds characters, memories, items, and elements that can overturn the history of the Faraday family. Changing which person stands outside a bedroom, or having two characters spend time together, shifts the outcome. The game is built as three visual novels that change shape based on choices, with 64 endings.